Tuesday Teaching!

This week I want to share a few things that have helped me to find a greater sense of inner peace.

I am by no means perfect. I still have days where I struggle with things but overall I am in a place where I feel good about myself, about my life, and about where I am going.

The first thing I did several years ago that helped me to take a huge chip off my shoulder is truly accepting that I cannot change the past and the past does not need to control who I am now or who I will be in the future. This was huge for me. I had held onto the past and all the wrongs with an iron fist of anger and disappointment like it was my lifeblood. I was bitter and angry and not the person I wanted to be. Sure, I had some things happen when I was young that sucked. Those things don’t need to be the narrative backbone of my life story.

The other thing that helped is not letting myself get caught up in other people’s “stuff”. I still care about the people in my life and I am still there for them. I just don’t let anyone else’s stuff stress me out like I used to.

The last thing that really helped me is realizing I cannot control anyone but myself. Seems obvious but I think we all at times cause ourselves stress by not accepting that we can only control how we think, act, and react.

What changes in your life have brought you a great sense of inner peace?